Environmental movements: From the local to the global

Rootes, Christopher

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“…Puzzles, such as why different EMOs experience differential access to state actors, remain largely unexplained (Rootes, 1999a). To answer this question we need to focus on meso-level processesinteractions among organizations or social groups -which help to reveal differential impacts of the political context on EMOs.…”

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Gaining Access to the State: Political Opportunities and Agency in Forest Activism in Indonesia

Gregorio

2013

Social Movement Studies

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This paper investigates the complex nature of access to the state for environmental movement organizations (EMOs) and adopts an interactionist approach to explore inter-organizational networking between EMOs and state actors. The paper supports existing evidence that proximate political opportunities are in part contingent on the interests, claims and frames of policy actors. The main theoretical contribution of this paper is to illustrate that EMOs strategically adapt to existing opportunity environments and actively seek to engage state actors that are most receptive to their demands, as opposed to those that have most influence in the domain, and that new modes of governance facilitate such access. Using evidence from forest activism in Indonesia, it shows that: lobbying less powerful but more receptive actors is a strategy that EMOs use to overcome limited political opportunities and that semiindependent multi-actor forums expand access of EMOs to potential state actor allies.The paper also shows that within the Indonesian context these multi-stakeholders forums are actively supported by international organisations, which therefore directly contribute to expanding opportunities for EMOs.

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Gaining Access to the State: Political Opportunities and Agency in Forest Activism in Indonesia

Gregorio

2013

Social Movement Studies

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“…Research into local environmental protest has focused on describing and explaining different ÔstagesÕ of community mobilisation, where the emergence (Gould et al 1996;Rootes 1999;Carmin 1999;Futrell 2003), development (Lichterman 1996;Rootes 2007) and outcomes (Walsh et al 1997;Baggott 1998;Rootes 2009) of protest have variably featured in analyses.…”

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The impact of local campaigns against wind energy developments

Ogilvie

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2015

Environmental Politics

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Many scholars have emphasised community resistance to locally sited wind energy schemes in their explanations of wind power planning outcomes and deployment rates, while others have questioned the impact of local objectors. To illuminate ways in which local protestors attempt to influence decisions over the siting of wind turbines, and the efficacy of their efforts, we compare four cases of anti-windfarm protest in England. Local protestors employ community mobilisation and direct argumentation in attempting to influence local authority decisionmaking. At this level, mobilisation is effective, not only bringing political pressure to bear on elected decisionmakers, but also helping local groups to raise money to hire experts and professional advocates. At public inquiries protestors have some influence through the supporting role they play to more significant objectors, notably local authorities, but may also influence outcomes through informal contacts preceding public inquiries.

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“…According to many observers, they had become institutions, rather than movements, more like bureaucratic organizations than local activists [10,11].…”

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The making of green knowledge: the contribution from activism

Jamison

2003

Futures

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The paper discusses some of the contributions of environmental activism to the development of knowledge. The paper contrasts some of the main forms of knowledge-making that have emerged among activists and raises a number of questions both about the political and cognitive implications of such "green knowledge". The general argument is that, in the future, new types of interaction and new spaces for communication will need to be developed if green knowledge is not to be incorporated into the dominant culture or reduced to ineffective forms of protest. 

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Environmental movements: From the local to the global

Cited by 124 publications

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Gaining Access to the State: Political Opportunities and Agency in Forest Activism in Indonesia

Gaining Access to the State: Political Opportunities and Agency in Forest Activism in Indonesia

The impact of local campaigns against wind energy developments

The making of green knowledge: the contribution from activism

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